Responsible Quotes - Page 16

• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

  Jim Butcher

  Smart, Stupid, Camels

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• We are responsible for everything that happens in this world. We are warriors of light, and with the strength of our love and of our will we can change our destiny and that of many other people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Destiny

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• I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.

  Greg LeMond

  Phones, Should Have, People

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• I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Decision, Citizens, Answers

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• The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Decision, Scary

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• Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

  Tom Ford

  Students, Great Change

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• I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

  Assata Shakur

  Strong, Struggle, Collectivity

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.282, Zed Books

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• It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Book, Reader, Concern

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• If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, Men, Average

  "Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?". www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sacrifice, Answers, Principles

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

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• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

  Phil Lesh

  Real, Consciousness, Moments

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• Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

  Nick Carter

  Pressure, Fame

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• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  Laura Ingraham

  Party, People, Tea

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

  Byron Dorgan

  Vote, Feels

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

  Michael Parenti

  Responsible Government, Leader, Accountability

  Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

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• I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.55, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

  Reinhold Messner

  Self, Mountain, Way

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Faults

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

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• Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

  Dusty Baker

  Sports, Past, Police

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• To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simple, Giving, World

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• We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Nonviolent Communication

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